Guidance

IP Health Check: licensing IP

This booklet is designed to give you an understanding of the potential benefits licensing intellectual property (IP) offers your business.

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Published: 20 June 2014

This publication was withdrawn on 12 December 2014

This guide is no longer current and is not being updated. It has been replaced by the guide licensing intellectual property.

Documents

Licensing Intellectual Property

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Licensing Intellectual Property: checklist

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Licensing Intellectual Property: checklist

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Skeleton licence

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Details

This guide is aimed at businesses that would like to use somebody else’s IP or that are considering allowing somebody else to use theirs.

This booklet:

• contains an introduction to the concept of licensing intellectual property
• gives an explanation of why businesses grant and take licences of intellectual property
• sets out a checklist of the most common issues which you should consider before entering into any licence agreement
• provides a list of other resources for those who want to learn more about licensing
• provides a list of useful contacts

The supporting checklist sets out the major issues you need to think about before licensing IP.

Published 20 June 2014